As Things Go

Project Information

About the project

LOCKLINEA young girl happens to lose one thing every single day but when she finds them again, they are in a completly different context.

As Things Go is a film about materialism. About the love for objects, but as well as losing those objects to find them again. I think everybody is familiar with losing something what is precious and sometimes we are lucky enough to find again. That is a truly nice feeling right? As if that thing was meant especially for you. But sometimes the thing is gone, traveling, without you.

As an artist, filmmaker, I am very intriged by materialism and especially the relationship that human beings have with objects in their house. A few years ago I decided I had too much clothing. Beautiful things for sure in which I saw some sort of potential but never used. I wonderd If a picture of the garment would also be a valid replacement. I photographed every single garment, made a book out of it and sold my clothing in a concept store which sold out within a matter of a few fays. Now, I have a book filled with memories of vintage dresses, skirts, jackets, shoes, jewelry and no, all those things I don't miss.

As Things Go tells the story of a young woman, Priscilla. She lives in a colourful house with large white doors, surrounded by the things that she likes but strangely enough, she loses one thing every single day. One morning she wants to water her plants but her bonsai tree is missing. She searches everywhere, without any luck. She then goes through the large white doors to arrive in a Japanese garden surrounded by slowly moving geishas. The next day she is having dinner with her boyfriend. Something happens outside, she looks outside of the window to see what is going on. She turns around and her boyfriend has dissapeared. She searches everywhere without any luck. Then she goes through the large white doors and she finds her boyfriend in the arms of another girl.

As Things Go is a film about losing things, people, but to then find them again in a completely different context. I really want this film to become reality because next to the fact that its innovative experimental, it will also give a different view on materialism. We live in a time where a lot seems to evolve around having, getting. What happens if we lose, but find ourselves in a way we did not foresee but what eventually feels right?

The house of Priscilla will be a set that I will be making in a professional studio and the spaces she arrives in after she has gone through the white doors will be filmed on location in the Netherlands and abroad. Priscilla will travel far in search for the thing that she has lost and I want her to travel as far as possible. For this film, I will be working with a crew consisting out of young professionals. And there is something else which is very special. The usual dialogue in film will be replaced with sounds and music and for this I will be working with fantastic musicians. Next to a beautiful film, a special soundtrack will be produced.

For all these special facets money is truly needed! So if you can support what you can, me and my crew will be truly grateful! This film I also pitched as part of a competition for ShortsTv, at the Netherlands Film Festival and from the 17 finalists the jury picked my film! I won 5000 euro production costs! They believe in my film and hopefully you do too.On to the 10.000. Will you help?

Love,

Silvia

Quote that inspired the maker

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Cast & crew

Producer & Director: Silvia Martes

In July 2013 Silvia graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with a major in Audiovisual. The last few years she focussed specifically in the making of short films. And she loves to build sets and spaces in her movies. The composition of the moving image is what intriges her.

Camera: Gilles van Leeuwen

Making movies. Gilles is fascinated and inspired by nature, colours, movies, space & tactility, minimalism & single-tasking. He recently graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He loves everything that has to do with camera's!

Acteurs: Priscilla Lacle

Priscilla Lacle is a beautiful girl from Aruba and at this moment she is studying Jewelry at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She has a lot of experience with modelling and next to a beautiful face she also has a special personality. The camera loves her.

Music : Emma Withers

Emma Withers plays the piano and can sing like a 5 year old child. She wish she could play the cello. At a very young age she started studying classic musicc for 15 years and then went on to study composition.

I decided to give a small party! You are hereby cordially invited to my house on Wednesday the 11th of December from 18.00 - 22.00! And this is what will be happening:

For this event I am making a room in my house with objects, from dresses to hammers, to (art) books, to props, to cups to fabrics, to jewelry to furcoats to prints to photographs. Things I've been holding on to and I now want to let go of. As my film is about letting go of things, on that evening I will be letting go of.. THINGS! Every visitor gets to take one thing out of the object-room for free. I will have a guestbook in which you can write why you wanted to take that specific thing. Just like at a wedding but then different. If you wish to join this event, send me a message on silvia-martes@hotmail.com and I will give you the adress. Hope to see you tonight! Silvia

This is becoming more and more exciting by the day! 10 days left to reach our goul.We are now on 59% and I'm confident in 10 days we will have reached the 100%!Have you already informed your friends about this project? Spread the word!

"I believe that everyone should live in one big empty space. It can be a small space, as long as it's clean and empty. I like the Japanese way of rolling everything up and locking it away in cupboards. But I wouldn't even have the cupboards, because that's hypocritical. But if you can't go all the way and you really feel you need a closet, then your closet should be a totally separate piece of space so you don't use it as a crutch too much. If you live in New York, your closet should be, at the very least, in New Jersey. Aside from false dependency, another reason for keeping your closet at a good distance from where you live is that you don't want to feel you're living next door to your own dump. Another person's dump wouldn't bother you so much because you wouldn't Know exactly what was in it, but thinking about your own closet, and knowing every little thing that's in it, could drive you crazy."

As I mentioned in the project page, is that I document all the clothes I sold. Most of the photographs are still on my hard drive but I printed out a tiny fragment of the garments.. Here it is.. Over the years I've photographed a gazillion pieces of clothing.

In a few days I will show you how my actual closet looks like. I think it comes down to 20 pieces of clothing. One day I hope to own as least as possible!

Two weeks left and thanks to Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for their amazing contribution we are now half way there! Two weeks left and 49% to go! A lot of exclamation marks but I'm very excited. Hope you are too!

we are in the middle of the crowdfunding project! 21 days left to reach our goal. So far, I want to thank all the supporters and I would like to ask you to share this project on your Facebook, Twitter and tell your friends and family about your support for this project!